Word: beaverboard
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...American Standard Bible (1971, 14 million sold, $13.95). This update of the King James rigidly follows the original Hebrew and Greek syntax (". . . Then entered in therefore the other disciple also"), and because of this became a surprise bestseller among studious conservatives. But as literature, it is strictly beaverboard, and so does not justify its title as a "standard Bible...
This time around the characters are not even wooden-just beaverboard. With one exception. As Alma, Betsy Palmer gives a performance that is touching and precise as a girl with a bad case of the fantods, erotic in the generosity of proffered and unrequited love, and radiant in the intensity of the deepest human feelings...
...true love and he devotes his weekends to it. He works fast (most of the ninety or so paintings in this exhibit were done since June), but would welcome a more relaxed pace. Trained in all media, he makes use of whatever he gets his hands on--canvas, beaverboard, masonite, linoleum, oils, watercolors, acrylics...
...Baker is still going strong-and so is Gypsum, whose $250 million sales in 1963 make it a giant in the building-products industry. Baker can be harshly protective toward his creation: he once abolished a whole department for socializing on the job. But the Tennessee-born onetime beaverboard salesman softens over children, spends Sundays entertaining his six grandchildren at his Buffalo penthouse. He also has solid business reasons for liking kids: more babies mean more homes, more schools and greater demand for his 350 products, which range from cement to ceramic tile. And that means more plants. Having just...
Unoriginal Originals. It would be hard to confuse the paintings that Lowitz' artists produce with masterpieces. Some are attempts to reflect a recognized master's style; others are done in the painter's own style. They are painted quickly and slickly on a type of beaverboard (easier to store, less likely to damage) that is cut to fit nine frame sizes, ranging from very small (8 in. by 10 in.) to rather big (72 in. by 20 in.). Whether they are semiabstract, magazine-cover American or postcard romantic, most of the unoriginal originals have the restful quality...